Job Opportunity in Jordan: Country Project Development Officer at ACTED

ACTED offers a job opportunity at the Coordination Office in Amman, Jordan as Country Project Development Officer where he will work with the team based in Syria. Since 2012, ACTED has been implementing humanitarian relief projects for vulnerable communities in Syria and supporting the building of civil society by investing in people and their potential.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, communications, or other related fields, with knowledge of communication and marketing principles (a post-graduate degree is desirable).
• At least 3 years of professional work experience in communications and marketing or public relations; experience working with NGOs is welcome.
• More than two years of experience in designing, editing and producing publications.
• Highly skilled in conceptualizing, writing and selling to internal and external audiences.
• English language proficiency.
• Excellent oral communication skills, including presentation (PowerPoint or Prezi) with strong attention to detail.
• Web content editing and proofing skills.
• Social Media.
• Knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of InDesign preferred.

Benefits:

• Salary defined by the ACTED salary grid depending on education level, expertise, security level.
• Living allowance of 300 USD.
• Lodging and food provided in the ACTED Guesthouse / or housing allowance (depending on the contract length and country of assignment).
• Flight tickets in and out + Visa taken in charge by ACTED.
• Provision of medical and repatriation insurances.

Responsibilities:

Fundraising:

• Support the fundraising effort of the ACTED WoS mission by developing outputs as part of the proposal development process.
• Design factsheets, brochure, and presentations to raise the profile of ACTED on thematic topics to current and potential partners and donors.

Grant Management:

• Ensure that contractual obligations including visibility requirements are known and met by Program, AMEU, and FLATs teams.
• Support field teams with project visibility and donor visibility.
• Participate in the kick-off and closeout meetings for each project.
• Participate in developing quality narrative reports, in liaison with ACTED HQ GMU and finance, which will contribute ultimately to steady cash inflow.
• Develop communication plans for each project to ensure all contractual communication indicators are met, as relevant.
• Develop ACTED’s external communication materials such as articles, and success stories in alignment with the communication plans.
• Contribute to effective partner follow up, including through technical support in developing communication and reporting plans and training on relevant project development and communications topics.

Internal Coordination and Communication:

• Develop internal communication media tools (internal newsletter, etc.).
• File, organize, and select pictures from field activities – from ACTED and its partners.
• Conduct communication training for the field teams and other departments to increase communication capacities across the mission.
• Lead on the annual report consolidation for HQ.
• Provide regular reports to HQ on programming and innovative components which can contribute to raising ACTED’s profile regionally and globally.

External Relations:

• Respond to ad-hoc requests for visibility and content.
• Provide support in the context of donor visits.

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